Communication from Scientifically Active Psychologists in the German-Speaking Countries: An Empirical Evaluation of the Current Situation
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Communication from Scientifically Active Psychologists in the German-Speaking Countries : An Empirical Evaluation of the Current Situation. / Genschow, Oliver; Sauerland, Melanie; Crusius, Jan et al.
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T1 - Communication from Scientifically Active Psychologists in the German-Speaking Countries
T2 - An Empirical Evaluation of the Current Situation
AU - Genschow, Oliver
AU - Sauerland, Melanie
AU - Crusius, Jan
AU - Friese, Malte
PY - 2022/9/5
Y1 - 2022/9/5
N2 - The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) expressly promotes communication from the scientific community. This corresponds to a recently published demand by the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat), which would like to see more communication from scientifically active psychologists. To promote scientific communication, however, it is first necessary to establish how and how much scientists are involved in scientific communication. This article presents a survey among scientifically active German-speaking psychologists (N = 740). The results show that German-speaking psychologists were less frequently engaged in scientific communication than researchers in other countries. The respondents stated that the main reason to engage in scientific communication was that it was fun and that they felt obligated to communicate scientific concerns to society and taxpayers. Lack of time, low prioritization, and doubts about one’s competence were the strongest inhibiting factors. More institutional support for administrative tasks and for teaching activities were the most frequently listed wishes to promote scientific communication. In the Discussion section, we put these findings in context with prior international surveys and consider means of promoting scientific communication.
AB - The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) expressly promotes communication from the scientific community. This corresponds to a recently published demand by the German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat), which would like to see more communication from scientifically active psychologists. To promote scientific communication, however, it is first necessary to establish how and how much scientists are involved in scientific communication. This article presents a survey among scientifically active German-speaking psychologists (N = 740). The results show that German-speaking psychologists were less frequently engaged in scientific communication than researchers in other countries. The respondents stated that the main reason to engage in scientific communication was that it was fun and that they felt obligated to communicate scientific concerns to society and taxpayers. Lack of time, low prioritization, and doubts about one’s competence were the strongest inhibiting factors. More institutional support for administrative tasks and for teaching activities were the most frequently listed wishes to promote scientific communication. In the Discussion section, we put these findings in context with prior international surveys and consider means of promoting scientific communication.
KW - science communication
KW - empirical evaluation
KW - psychology
KW - Business psychology
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/4da960e3-d9ea-31da-8220-f9ac8ec1570d/
U2 - 10.1026/0033-3042/a000606
DO - 10.1026/0033-3042/a000606
M3 - Journal articles
JO - Psychologische Rundschau
JF - Psychologische Rundschau
SN - 0033-3042
ER -